Ask Categories: Deciduous Trees; Cultivar/Species

Tree Drip Line Watering Best Practice

A tree in our front yard has a drip line whose radius now covers the two lawns, since it was planted 12 years ago, replacing a 100 year old maple tree. With the great rainfall of July 17 in west…

How to effectively remove chokecherry sucker trees

Hello, I have a lovely chokecherry tree. Unfortunately, it has created 10 or so small suckers throughout the garden bed. I have tried to remove them by tracing the long root systems and clipping the suckers to ground level. This…

Help with plant identification please

This is something that showed up uninvited (as best we can tell) in our backyard garden on the east bank of the Humber fairly early this spring, By now (mid-July) it is 5=6 feet tall. PictureThis and PlantID both claim…

Free 6 or 7 foot chestnut tree

Does anyone want this tree? Free to anyone that will dig it up and haul it away. It will grow too big in my North York backyard. I’ve trimmed it once, but will try to get rid of it this…

Tree Pruning Co for Oak

We need a good tree pruner for a 100+ yrs old oak. The tree is on our neighbour’s property, a few feet from the fence. Can you suggest a pruning company. Thank you,…

Serviceberry

Some leaves on our 18 yr old serviceberry have changed colour in one area and dropped off the tree….not a lot but more are turning in a couple other places…looking at neighbours 50 ft away the same thing seems to…

Deciding Between Two Oaks

I’m trying to decide between two different oak cultivars. Skinny Jeans and Kindred Spirit Hybrid. The garden I want to plant them in is 10 ft by 30 ft and I’m thinking of planting one at each end. I want…

Failing Young’s Weeping Birch

  Hello, I’m hoping someone can reassure me. My Young’s Weeping Birch, currently the prize centrepiece of my garden, started making its displeasure known early last week about (I assume) being overwatered. I had watered it a bit in the…

Flowering Tree Advice

We are looking to plant a flowering tree here at our condo complex in Scarborough, Ontario.. The site is partially over our underground garage roof with a depth of no more than 3 feet so roots must be more spreading…